Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada, also known as the Socreds, was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that existed from 1935 to 1993. The party had a strong social conservative tint to it as the result of a mixture of Christian fundamentalism with the social credit theories of C.H. Douglas. Solon Earl Low, the treasurer of Alberta, initially claimed that Jewish bankers were conspiring to take over the world, but he disavowed anti-Semitism after visiting Israel; the end of World War II led to the newly-unpopular, anti-Semitic faction of the party being purged. From 1963 to 1973, the party split into Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois factions, and it declined during the 1970s. The party dissolved in 1993.